I have a laptop. I *WANT* to play dwarf fortress, but I do not have a number pad, and switching in and out of number pad mode constantly makes the game almost unplayable.
This is quite true, my laptop pegs out its CPU after around 8MB/s. (Pentium M 1.6ghz)
Not to mention the poor HD, that is not contiguous writing, but rather multiple streams, so I imagine that the poor disk head is jumping all over the place trying to place that data!
Basically, 747 gets between 69.8 to 100mpg passenger miles per gallon.
Comparing both vehicles as being "full" is a faulty assumption. Airlines work their arses off to ensure that their airplanes take off as close to capacity as possible. Lots of people drive their SUVs to work alone.
(And the 747 is not exactly Boeings most fuel efficient airplane, the 787 is going to kick its arse! Not a huge jumbo jet, but amazingly cool.:) )
Make sure to mark them as spam, it constantly gets better.:)
Compare this to my Yahoo or Hotmail inbox, both of which put the MAJORITY of spam into my Inbox. Last time I checked Hotmail, over 1000 spam in my Inbox, about 30 spam in the spam folder...
What spam? I get maybe 1 or 2 spam emails in my actual inbox each week.
Oh, my spam folder? Over a hundred a day, but as I recall, Gmail has miscategorized maybe 2 or 3 messages as spam during the entire time I have used it. Unless I am expecting something, I rarly check the spam folder at all.
That is very true. As I said in another message, the problem with the war in Iraq was not our military's performance; it was how our government went about rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure.
Here's the problem with most conservatives I talk to: They all say that we went in with the knowledge we had, and did the best in the situation. Just because there were unexpected obstacles resulting in an extended occupation (and costing lives and a lot of extra money) doesn't meant that it Rumsfeld should step down
LOL, unexpected obstacles. Since when are people an unexpected obstacle in a country? That is an inane argument.
His strategy was to go in with a small force, under a plan which was grossly underfunded (or at least undersold) with what we now know was bad intel, and after planting an American^WIraqi flag in the center of Baghdad, bask in the warm glow of admiration. That warm glow wasn't entirely admiration.
I actually think that militarily, we had enough men over there to start with. What we NEEDED to do was build good will all along the way as we marched towards Baghdad. From almost the very beginning, we should have had American workers over there (being paid massive hazard pay) building up any infrastructure that we had destroyed, and improving the quality of life of the average Iraqi citizen.
Any Iraqi city that our government declared "stabilized" should have damn well had building supplies and union labor air dropped in there, and within one month to two months, had running water and power.
I can guarantee you, a man who lives in a city that has just received power, safe drinking water, and a new hospital, is NOT going to take up arms and shoot at us.
How many militants do you think would find refuge in Iraq if the houses they tried to ask for refuge in had been remodeled by Americans?
The problem was not with the military, the problem is that the republicans (and Bush specifically) saw (see...) this war as an opportunity for tons of pork barrel projects for their corporate friends.
Surprise surprise, if a man watches his family die of thirst and sickness while corporate bids are being submitted and worked out, he IS going to pick up a gun and shoot at us when we finally do get around to sending somebody over there to attempt and make his life better...
That was the US of A military with superior power doing what they were trained to do.
I am speaking of how little force he used, and how widely dispersed our forces were throughout the nation. He was smart enough to realize that the army needed a flatting on its control structure, and that decisions can be made at a quicker rate at a lower level in the chain of command.
Realizing this, and then going about and implementing it, was an excellent move on his part.
I do not agree with much else he has done, but as a/. geek, I have to admire the application of technology to a problem that results in reduced operational costs and quicker decision making!
Hey now, I am an anti-war democrat, so work with me here.:)
The "formal" war in Iraq, the one against the Iraqi army, went over amazingly well. The mobile army plan Rumsfeld had worked well, despite a fair number of technical glitches. Our armed forces utilized technology to an amazing degree (remember, this is all in relation to past government efforts.:) )
When the war went to the street fighting army vs militia type of conflict, then his entire strategy was out of place. The fact that it should never have devolved to the degree it has is also a (the...) major issue.
To be honest, his strategy for initially winning the war was really damn good. He is honestly a man I would want leading out troops in a traditional war. (minus the body armor stupidity...)
He blows massive chunks at the entire "making peace after war" part though, and that is the part that gets your name in the history books....
Toyota, like all the other Japanese companies, have developed an immense auto industry because of earlier-era offshoring.
Their workers became managers.
Their managers became CEOs.
All of whom are paid far less than their American counterparts.
They under cut us with price.
First off, they built an immense auto industry in part because of offshoring. The second reason was that the American companies REFUSED to use the (invented in the USA!) robotics in their factories. The Japanese saw it as the way of the future (by which I mean cheaper) and were far more open to its adoption.
Now NEITHER of these two factors explain the current situation that the big three are in. Japanese labor now costs more than US labor, US car companies and Japanese car companies share a lot of research and design efforts.
The only difference is that the American companies have this stupid idea that if a car doesn't look like arse, it should cost a lot of money. Thus the current situation with ars-tacular cars that are cheap and anything that isn't arsey costing a ton, and surprise surprise, not selling that well.
Chrysler has, lets see, ONE car that interests me, but costs about 2.5x what I can afford. (A fully loaded 300m), Ford and GM have *NOTHING* that I want to buy.
Toyota by comparison has a fair selection of awesome cars.
Toyota makes the Prius.
Ford makes a hybrid, umm, SUV. W-T-F?
All of Ford's affordable cars are fugly. Doh!
Toyota owns Scion. Sweet.
Ford owns, umm. Oh yah. Fugly.
I *WANT* to buy American, I honestly do. I'd even pay a price premium on it (3-4k), but, I can't, we aren't making any good cars.:(
First time I read that (yeesh that was awhile back!), my first thought was "Oh, that is a half decent idea." until about half a second later the entire "wait, he is talking about eating children" part sunk all the way in.
After which of course, my third thought was: "It is inefficient to raise meat in the first place, food used to fatten up meat sources are more efficiently....etcetc"
The end result of a mind weighed far too heavily towards the analytical...
Even then the part regarding killing the accused rapist is bad enough. That is even putting aside the fact that I'm against the death penalty.
The death penalty is tricky.
On one hand, it saves lots of money.
On the other hand, there exists an all too real possability for innocent people to be put to death.
I support death in cases where there is obvious guilt. DNA from rape cases makes a strong case, but it also presents an opportunity for women to easily kill men whom they are angry at. State sponsored assasination....
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I have a laptop. I *WANT* to play dwarf fortress, but I do not have a number pad, and switching in and out of number pad mode constantly makes the game almost unplayable.
LOL, and possibly compressed in transit, making the overall transfer speed seem even higher. :)
Dell D600 w/ integrated network card.
4 to 5 transfers at a time.
This is quite true, my laptop pegs out its CPU after around 8MB/s. (Pentium M 1.6ghz)
Not to mention the poor HD, that is not contiguous writing, but rather multiple streams, so I imagine that the poor disk head is jumping all over the place trying to place that data!
One other interesting bit I came across when another forum was having this same discussion:
Road trip from Seattle to LA: 1200 miles
Plane trip from Seattle to LA: 900 miles.
Planes get to fly straight, making for a reduced overall trip.
(Efficiency goes down when one goes initially away from the destination to catch a connector flight...)
howstuffworks.com link
:) )
Basically, 747 gets between 69.8 to 100mpg passenger miles per gallon.
Comparing both vehicles as being "full" is a faulty assumption. Airlines work their arses off to ensure that their airplanes take off as close to capacity as possible. Lots of people drive their SUVs to work alone.
(And the 747 is not exactly Boeings most fuel efficient airplane, the 787 is going to kick its arse! Not a huge jumbo jet, but amazingly cool.
Actually, in terms of fuel used, jumbo jets are the most efficient way to move large quantities of people.
Mind you, I am working for Boeing right now, so I'd rather you buy our jumbo jets.
IE7 may not be, but the underlying HTML rendering engine IS. A lot of applications (Quickbooks for one obviously!) utilize it internally.
I have seen a good number of Windows apps that are basically fancy HTML web pages with custom UI widgets.
Huh? As I recall, isn't this true? I have heard it enough times. "Human Ribcage" doesn't really mention much...
Make sure to mark them as spam, it constantly gets better. :)
Compare this to my Yahoo or Hotmail inbox, both of which put the MAJORITY of spam into my Inbox. Last time I checked Hotmail, over 1000 spam in my Inbox, about 30 spam in the spam folder...
What spam? I get maybe 1 or 2 spam emails in my actual inbox each week.
Oh, my spam folder? Over a hundred a day, but as I recall, Gmail has miscategorized maybe 2 or 3 messages as spam during the entire time I have used it. Unless I am expecting something, I rarly check the spam folder at all.
The battle system is like playing a MMORPG, but you are by yourself.
Battles are horribly boring. Auto attack, who in the world decided upon that? Hey, you there, attack those guys! I'll just sit back and heal...
If they had included auto healing as well, the only thing the player would need to do is walk around between way points!
That is very true. As I said in another message, the problem with the war in Iraq was not our military's performance; it was how our government went about rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure.
LOL, unexpected obstacles. Since when are people an unexpected obstacle in a country? That is an inane argument.
I actually think that militarily, we had enough men over there to start with. What we NEEDED to do was build good will all along the way as we marched towards Baghdad. From almost the very beginning, we should have had American workers over there (being paid massive hazard pay) building up any infrastructure that we had destroyed, and improving the quality of life of the average Iraqi citizen.
Any Iraqi city that our government declared "stabilized" should have damn well had building supplies and union labor air dropped in there, and within one month to two months, had running water and power.
I can guarantee you, a man who lives in a city that has just received power, safe drinking water, and a new hospital, is NOT going to take up arms and shoot at us.
How many militants do you think would find refuge in Iraq if the houses they tried to ask for refuge in had been remodeled by Americans?
The problem was not with the military, the problem is that the republicans (and Bush specifically) saw (see...) this war as an opportunity for tons of pork barrel projects for their corporate friends.
Surprise surprise, if a man watches his family die of thirst and sickness while corporate bids are being submitted and worked out, he IS going to pick up a gun and shoot at us when we finally do get around to sending somebody over there to attempt and make his life better...
I am speaking of how little force he used, and how widely dispersed our forces were throughout the nation. He was smart enough to realize that the army needed a flatting on its control structure, and that decisions can be made at a quicker rate at a lower level in the chain of command.
Realizing this, and then going about and implementing it, was an excellent move on his part.
I do not agree with much else he has done, but as a
Hey now, I am an anti-war democrat, so work with me here. :)
:) )
The "formal" war in Iraq, the one against the Iraqi army, went over amazingly well. The mobile army plan Rumsfeld had worked well, despite a fair number of technical glitches. Our armed forces utilized technology to an amazing degree (remember, this is all in relation to past government efforts.
When the war went to the street fighting army vs militia type of conflict, then his entire strategy was out of place. The fact that it should never have devolved to the degree it has is also a (the...) major issue.
To be honest, his strategy for initially winning the war was really damn good. He is honestly a man I would want leading out troops in a traditional war. (minus the body armor stupidity...)
He blows massive chunks at the entire "making peace after war" part though, and that is the part that gets your name in the history books....
Also is requires an ActiveX control that itself requires admin privileges to install.
First off, they built an immense auto industry in part because of offshoring. The second reason was that the American companies REFUSED to use the (invented in the USA!) robotics in their factories. The Japanese saw it as the way of the future (by which I mean cheaper) and were far more open to its adoption.
Now NEITHER of these two factors explain the current situation that the big three are in. Japanese labor now costs more than US labor, US car companies and Japanese car companies share a lot of research and design efforts.
The only difference is that the American companies have this stupid idea that if a car doesn't look like arse, it should cost a lot of money. Thus the current situation with ars-tacular cars that are cheap and anything that isn't arsey costing a ton, and surprise surprise, not selling that well.
REALLY bad example.
Chrysler has, lets see, ONE car that interests me, but costs about 2.5x what I can afford. (A fully loaded 300m), Ford and GM have *NOTHING* that I want to buy.
Toyota by comparison has a fair selection of awesome cars.
Toyota makes the Prius.
Ford makes a hybrid, umm, SUV. W-T-F?
All of Ford's affordable cars are fugly. Doh!
Toyota owns Scion. Sweet.
Ford owns, umm. Oh yah. Fugly.
I *WANT* to buy American, I honestly do. I'd even pay a price premium on it (3-4k), but, I can't, we aren't making any good cars.
Sign of too much engineer training:
First time I read that (yeesh that was awhile back!), my first thought was "Oh, that is a half decent idea." until about half a second later the entire "wait, he is talking about eating children" part sunk all the way in.
After which of course, my third thought was: "It is inefficient to raise meat in the first place, food used to fatten up meat sources are more efficiently....etcetc"
The end result of a mind weighed far too heavily towards the analytical...
Funny thing is, I remember the early/mid 90s when part of the republican base was militias with guns who used to hold that exact position.
;)
Given how the tables have turned, I am thinking that maybe the democrats should not taken a strong stance in favor of gun control.
I could list some people....
*points off towards DC*
Pretty much all the residents in those large government buildings there need to have a bit more fear of the populace.
The death penalty is tricky.
On one hand, it saves lots of money.
On the other hand, there exists an all too real possability for innocent people to be put to death.
I support death in cases where there is obvious guilt. DNA from rape cases makes a strong case, but it also presents an opportunity for women to easily kill men whom they are angry at. State sponsored assasination....
Sigh.
Let the woman have the baby if she WANTS it. I am saying that abortion should not be forced in cases when a woman has had no choice in pregnancy.